Norman Stone is a professor of Modern History and an expert on thehistory of the Central and Eastern Europe as well as theTurkish-Russian relations. He has served at Cambridge and OxfordUniversities, and now lectures at Bilkent University. Some of hisbooks are "The Eastern Front 1914-1917", "Europe Transformed1878-1919" and "Czechoslovakia: Crossroads and Crises, 1918-88". He is also a co-author of "The Other Russia" with Michael Glenny.